Multilevel lists in InfoPath

[Dave Lind]

Is there any way to create a multilevel numberedlist in InfoPath? Can't find
anything on google about this problem. Am I the only one who needs this
feature in InfoPath? Pretty easy to do in Word but why not in IP?

 

[Shiva (GGK Tech)]

Hello,

Multilevel numbered list means you have to create the repeating section
under repeating section. Then you can give the different number format for
both parent and child repeating section nodes.

 

[Dave Lind]

That's true, but it isn't very flexible in that way. For example, you can't
get the numbering to continue correctly after you insert the child section.
This is what I was trying to get:

1. Parent
2. Parent
2.1. Child
2.2. Child
3. Parent
3.1 Child
4.Parent

Is there some rule or somethin so that I could continue the numbering so
that the new parent added after the child wouldn't start from number 1. again?

 

[Swathi (GGK Tech)]

Hi,
Use the following expression as default value in the parent repeating table
field (field1).
count(../preceding-sibling::my:group2) + 1
And use the following expression as default value in child repeating table
field(field2).
concat(../../../my:field1, ".", count(../preceding-sibling::my:group4) + 1)

if the xpaths are in the following format.
/my:myFields/my:group1/my:group2/my:field1
/my:myFields/my:group1/my:group2/my:group3/my:group4/my:field2